Norbert Schnell

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Researcher and Developer, Real-Time Musical Interactions, IRCAM – Centre Pompidou

Research Topics and Interests

  • Gestural control and re-rembodiment of recorded sounds
  • Morphology of sound and gesture (and their relationship)
  • Music making and listening in the 21st Century
  • Real-time interactive content based audio processing
  • Real-time analysis/re-synthesis
  • Massive multi-channel sound synthesis

Flux

  • Head of the IRCAM Real-Time Musical Interactions and former Real-Time Applications team, 2002–2007.
  • DAAD Edgard Varèse Guest Professor for Electronic Music, TU Berlin 2007.
  • Member of the NIME steering commitee.
  • Chair of the 2006 International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression, NIME 06, June 2006.
  • Member of the IRCAM Real-Time Systems team, 1995–2002.
  • Collaborator of the MusikLabor Wien, 1994–1995.
  • Studio Assistant at the IEM, Institute for Electronic Music and Acousics Graz, 1990–1994.

Developments

  • MuBu, Sound description buffer for content based real-time interactive audio processing
  • PiPo, Plugin Interface for (Stream) Processing Objects
  • FTM & Co, Real-time audio, gesture and music processing library for Max/MSP

R&D Projects

EC Projects

  • SAME, Interactive mobile music applications
  • I-MAESTRO, Multimodal analysis and feedback in music pedagogy
  • Semantic HIFI, Real-time interactive content based audio processing

National Projects

  • Interlude, Novel paradigms for expressive gestural exploration and interaction with digital musical content
  • 2PIM/MI3, Interactive multimodal programming platform for the meta-instrument
  • Hartis, Real-time interactive simulation of car sounds (for PSA Peugeot Citroën)

Major Artistic Projects

  • Cameleon Kaleidoscope, Piece for ensemble by Marco Antonio Suarez Cifuentes
    Development of real-time analysis and re-synthesis, Biennale Musiques en scène Lyon, 2010.
  • K..., Opera by Philippe Manoury
    Development of a virtual choir (vocal analysis/re-synthesis),
    with Geffroy Peeters and Serge Lemouton, Opera Bastille Paris, 2001.
  • Narzissus, Opera by Beat Furrer
    Development of real-time processing (time stretching and sound spatialisation),
    with Peter Böhm, Steirischer Herbst Graz, Salzburger Festspiele, Biennale di Venezia, 1994.

Artistic Projects

  • Urban Musical Game
    Interactive sound installation of a musical ball game, with Frederic Bevilacqua, Nicolas Rasamimanana, Julien Blois, Emmanuel Flety, Benjamin Miller, Jean-Louis Frechin, Uros Petrevski, and Andrea Cera, Festivals Agora IRCAM and Future en Seine, Paris, 2011.
  • Sans Sous-Titres / Poème Symphonique pour 100 Langues / Histoires Drôles
    (working titles)
    Audio-visual installation project about the multiplicity of languages, with Wolf Ka and Maryline Gillois, in collaboration with the DGLFLF, supported by the DICREAM (aide à la maquette 2009), work in progress.
  • MindBox
    Audio-visual installation based on a gambling machine
    with Christian Graupner (HUMATIC) and Roberto Zappalà (Compagnia Zappalà Danza), Festival CynetArt Dresden, 2009, Festival Uva Grapes Catania, 2010.
  • S0UNDB1TS
    Sound installation for hundreds of independent elementary sound sources
    with Robin Minard, Festival Inventionen Berlin, 2002.
  • Maison de l'Ecluse
    Sound installation in the framework of the Anamnesis event
    with Antony Hequet and Antonella Bussanich, Chatillon sur Loire, 2000.
  • Players – Twilight Zone
    Concert and installation for 2 chess players, 3 musicians and 3 pinball players
    with Peter Böhm, Uli Fussenegger and Corinne Schweitzer, Steirischer Herbst Graz, 1997.
  • Die Schweinefarm
    Musikspiel after George Orwell's Animal Farm
    with Jiri Petrlik and Cornelius Buchmann, Thalia in der Kunsthalle Hamburg, 1988.

Cursus

  • PhD course at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz, supervisor: Gerhard Eckel, since 2007.
  • Degree Diplom Ingenieur (Toningenieur) of the Technical University and the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz, 1996.
  • Diplomarbeit at AKG Acoustics Wien, 1994/95.
  • Studies at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz,
    Music theory with Georg Friedrich Haas, Bernhard Lang and Gerd Kühr, 1990–1996.

Publications

Editor

  • N. Schnell, F. Bevilacqua, M. J. Lyons, A. Tanaka, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), IRCAM - Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 2006. (HTML)

Author

2011

  • N. Schnell, F. Bevilacqua, F. Guédy, N. Rasamimanana, Playing and Replaying – Sound, Gesture and Music Analysis and Re-Synthesis for the Interactive Control and Re-Embodiment of Recorded Music, in H. von Loesch and S. Weinzierl (Eds.), Gemessene Interpretation - Computergestützte Aufführungsanalyse im Kreuzverhör der Disziplinen, Klang und Begriff, Volume 4, Schott Verlag, Mainz, 2011.
  • F. Bevilacqua, N. Schnell, N. Rasamimanana, B. Zamborlin, F. Guedy, Online Gesture Analysis and Control of Audio Processing, Musical Robots and Interactive Multimodal Systems, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Volume 74, Springer Verlag, 2011. (Google Books Preview)
  • N. Schnell, F. Bevilacqua, N. Rasamimanana, J. Bloit, F. Guedy, E. Flety, Playing the MO – Gestural Control and Re-Embodiment of Recorded Sound and Music, International Conference on New Interfaces of Musical Expression (NIME), Oslo, June 2011. (PDF)
  • B. Caramiaux, F. Bevilacqua, N. Schnell, Sound Selection by Gestures, International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Oslo, June 2011. (PDF)
  • B. Caramiaux, P. Susini, T. Bianco, F. Bevilacqua, O. Houix, N. Schnell, N. Misdariis, Gestural Embodiment of Environmental Sounds: an Experimental Study, International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Oslo, June 2011. (PDF)
  • N. Rasamimanana, F. Bevilacqua, N. Schnell, F. Guedy, C. Maestracci E. Flety, B. Zamborlin, U. Petrevsky J.-L. Frechin, Modular Musical Objects Towards Embodied Control Of Digital Music, Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 2011. (PDF)

2010

  • B. Caramiaux, F. Bevilacqua, N. Schnell, Towards a Gesture-Sound Cross-Modal Analysis, Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 5934, Springer Verlag, 2010.
  • F. Bevilacqua, B. Zamborlin, A. Sypniewski, N. Schnell, F. Guédy, N. Rasamimanana, Continuous realtime gesture following and recognition, Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 5934, Springer Verlag, 2010.
  • N. Schnell, M. A. Suárez Cifuentes, J.-P. Lambert, First Steps in Relaxed Real-Time Typo-Morphological Audio Analysis/Synthesis, International Conference on Sound and Music Computing (SMC), Barcelona, July 2010. (PDF)
  • B. Caramiaux, F. Bevilacqua, N. Schnell, Analysing Gesture and Sound Similarities with a HMM-based Divergence Measure, International Conference on Sound and Music Computing (SMC), Barcelona, July 2010.
  • D. Schwarz, N. Schnell, Descriptor-based Sound Texture Sampling, International Conference on Sound and Music Computing (SMC), Barcelona, July 2010.
  • G. Leslie, D. Schwarz, O. Warusfel, F. Bevilacqua, B. Zamborlin, P. Jodlowski, N. Schnell, Grainstick: A Collaborative, Interactive Sound Installation, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), New York, June 2010.
  • D. Schwarz, N. Schnell, A Modular Sound Descriptor Analysis Framework for Relaxed-real-time Applications, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), New York, June 2010
  • F. Bevilacqua, B. Zamborlin, N. Rasamimanana, N. Schnell, Contrôle gestuel continu de médias sonores et visuels, Forum on Tactile and Gestural Interaction, Lille, June 2010.
  • B. Caramiaux, F. Bevilacqua, N. Schnell, Study on Gesture-Sound Similarity, International Conference on Music and Gesture, Montreal, March 2010.
  • B. Hackbart, N. Schnell, D. Schwarz, Audioguide: A Framework for Creative Exploration of Concatenative Sound Synthesis, IRCAM, Musical Research Residency Report, Paris, 2010.
  • M. A. Suarez-Cifuentes, N. Schnell, A Compositional Approach to Analysis Re-Synthesis, IRCAM Composer in Research Report, Paris, 2010.
  • B. Caramiaux, F. Bevilacqua, B. Zamborlin, N. Schnell, Mimicking Sound with Gesture as Interaction Paradigm, IRCAM Report, Paris, 2010.

2008 and 2009

  • N. Schnell, A. Röbel, D. Schwarz, G. Peeters, R. Borghesi, MuBu & Friends - Assembling Tools for Content Based Real-Time Interactive Audio Processing in Max/MSP, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Montreal, August 2009. (PDF)
  • D. Schwarz, N. Schnell, S. Gulluni, Scalability in Content-Based Navigation of Sound Databases, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Montreal, August 2009.
  • D. Schwarz, N. Schnell, Sound Search by Content-Based Navigation in Large Databases, International Conference on Sound and Music Computing (SMC), Porto, July 2009.
  • B. Caramiaux, N. Schnell, Towards an Analysis Tool for Gesture/Sound Mapping, Gesture Workshop. Bielefeld, February 2009.
  • B. Caramiaux, N. Schnell, Similarity Measures between Gesture and Sound, The International Summer School in Systematic, Comparative and Cognitive Musicology, Jyväskylä, 2009.
  • F. Bevilacqua, B. Zamborlin, A. Sypniewski, N. Schnell, F. Guédy, Continuous realtime gesture following and recognition, The 8th International Gesture Workshop, 2009.
  • N. Rasamimanana, F. Guédy, N. Schnell, J.-P. Lambert, F. Bevilacqua, Three Pedagogical Scenarios using the Sound and Gesture Lab, 4th i-Maestro Workshop on Technology Enhanced Music Education, Genoa, June 2008.
  • T. Koerselman, O. Larkin, B. Ong, N. Leroy, J.-P. Lambert, D. Schwarz, F. Guédy, N. Schnell, F. Bevilacqua, K. Ng, SDIF Integration in i-Maestro Gesture Tool, 4th i-Maestro Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Music Education, Genoa, June 2008.
  • T. Grosshauser, D. Schwarz, N. Schnell, Seeing the Inaudible : Descriptors for generating objective and reproducible data in real-time for musical instrument playing standard situations, Audio Engineering Society Convention (AES), Amsterdam, May 2008.
  • D. Schwarz, S. Cadars, N. Schnell, What Next? Continuation in Real-Time Corpus-Based Concatenative Synthesis, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Belfast, August 2008.

2005 to 2007

  • F. Guédy, N. Leroy, F. Bevilacqua, T. Grosshauser, N. Schnell, Pedagogical experimentation using the Sound and Gesture Lab, 3rd i-Maestro Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Music Education, Barcelone, November 2007.
  • A. Cont, D. Schwarz, N. Schnell, C. Raphael, Evaluation of Real-Time Audio-to-Score Alignment, International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), p. 315-316, Vienna, September 2007.
  • F. Bevilacqua, F. Guédy, F. Emmanuel, N. Leroy, N. Schnell, Wireless sensor interface and gesture-follower for music pedagogy, International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), New York, June 2007.
  • N. Schnell, F. Bevilacqua, D. Schwarz, N. Rasamimanana, F. Guédy, Technology and Paradigms to Support the Learning of Music Performance, 2nd i-Maestro Workshop on Technology Enhanced Music Education, Leeds, December 2006.
  • N. Schnell, D. Schwarz, R. Müller, X-Micks – Interactive Content Based Real-Time Audio Processing, 9th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Montreal, September 2006. (PDF)
  • F. Bevilacqua, N. Rasamimanana, N. Schnell, Interfaces gestuelles, captation du mouvement et création artistique, L'inouï #2, Revue de l'Ircam, Editions Léo Scheer, 2006.
  • A. Cont, D. Schwarz, N. Schnell, Training Ircam's Score Follower, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, March 2005.
  • N. Schnell, D. Schwarz, Gabor, Multi-Representation Real-Time Analysis/Synthesis, COST-G6 Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), p. 122-126, Madrid, September 2005. (PDF)
  • N. Schnell, R. Borghesi, D. Schwarz, F. Bevilacqua, R. Müller, FTM — Complex data structures for Max, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Barcelona, September 2005. (PDF)
  • D. Schwarz, A. Cont, N. Schnell, From Boulez to Ballads: Training Ircam's Score Follower, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Barcelona, September 2005.
  • F. Bevilacqua, R. Müller, N. Schnell, MnM: a Max/MSP mapping toolbox, International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), p. 85-88 Vancouver, May 2005. (PDF)

2000 to 2004

  • A. Cont, D. Schwarz, N. Schnell, Implicit Learning of Musical Performance Parameters, training Ircam's Score Follower, AAAI Symposium 2004 Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design, Washington, October 2004.
  • D. Schwarz, N. Orio, N. Schnell, Robust Polyphonic Midi Score Following with Hidden Markov Models, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Miami, November 2004.
  • N. Orio, S. Lemouton, D. Schwarz, N. Schnell, Score Following: State of the Art and New Developments, International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Montreal, May 2003.
  • N. Schnell, M. Battier, Introducing Composed Instruments: Technical and Musicological Implications, International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Dublin, May 2002. (PDF)
  • N. Schnell, G. Peeters, S. Lemouton, P. Manoury, X. Rodet, Synthesizing a choir in real-time using Pitch Synchronous Overlap Add (PSOLA), International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Berlin, September 2000. (PDF)
  • F. Déchelle, R. Borghesi, N. Orio, N. Schnell, The jMax environment: an overview of new features, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Berlin, September 2000.
  • R. Bargar, F. Déchelle, I. Choi, A. Betts, C. Goudeseune, N. Schnell, W. Olivier, Coney Island, combining JMax, Spat and VSS for Acoustic Integration of spatial and temporal models in a virtual reality installation, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), San Francisco, 2000.
  • M. M. Wanderley, N. Orio, N. Schnell, Towards an analysis of interaction in sound generating systems, International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA), Paris, December 2000.

20th Century

  • F. Iovino, N. Schnell, O. Lartillot, Modalys in jMax, real-time modal-synthesis, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Beijing, October 1999.
  • F. Déchelle, M. de Cecco, E. Maggi, N. Schnell, jMax recent developments, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Pekin, September 1999.
  • F. Déchelle, R. Borghesi, M. de Cecco, E. Maggi, J. B. Rovan, N. Schnell, jMax: An Environment for Real-Time Musical Applications, Computer Music Journal, vol. 23, n° 3, p. 50-58, September 1999.
  • F. Déchelle, R. Borghesi, M. de Cecco, E. Maggi, J. B. Rovan, N. Schnell, jMax: a new JAVA-based editing and control system for real-time musical applications, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Ann Arbor, October 1998.
  • M. M. Wanderley, N. Schnell, J. B. Rovan, ESCHER - Modeling and Performing Composed Instruments in real-time, IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, San Diego - CA, October 1998.
  • F. Déchelle, R. Borghesi, M. de Cecco, E. Maggi, J. B. Rovan, N. Schnell, jMax: demonstration of an integrated environment for real time musical applications, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Ann Arbor, October 1998.
  • F. Déchelle, R. Borghesi, M. de Cecco, E. Maggi, J. B. Rovan, N. Schnell, Latest evolutions of the FTS real-time engine, typing, scoping, threading, compiling, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Ann Arbor, October 1998.
  • F. Déchelle, M. de Cecco, E. Maggi, N. Schnell, New DSP applications on FTS, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Hong Kong, 1996.
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